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The Insider #82 – EA’s Star Wars Crisis Continues?

With the departure of Jade Raymond from EA's Motive studios, more questions are being asked about how EA has handled the Star Wars license whilst it's been in their possession. The latest episode of The Insider takes this issue head-on.

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Knightofelemia2009d ago

I am surprised MIckey Mouse has not pulled the Star Wars license from EA after Battlefront 2

Godmars2902009d ago (Edited 2009d ago )

There's a thing called contracts.

Along with being a fundamentally creatively bankrupt company that surprisingly makes money on the hopes and dreams of children as well as those children at heart.

And no, I'm not talking about EA...

Knightofelemia2008d ago

A company like Disney who literally print their own money with their theme parks their movies kids of various generations have grown up on and their acquisitions of both Star Wars and Marvel. I am pretty sure Disney can afford to buy out the contract or cancel the contract with EA instead of EA running a big franchise like Star Wars into the ground face first Disney can be protective over their property.

Godmars2902008d ago

A company like Disney does not care about overall quality, only that something is "good enough" and makes money. A projected/demanded amount of money. Their toy-based video game made money, but since it didn't make a required amount, they shut it down with little warning.

Avengers Earth Mightest Heroes, The Spectacular Spiderman and even the Clone Wars were all considered to be high quality shows, popular to general audiences, yet were all canceled simply because Disney wanted versions of them done under their roof. Inferior versions aimed at a specific audience. With the last, Clone Wars, revived not in the direct wake in their own debacle w/TLJ, but because Solo bombed so badly it made them finally realize they'd mucked things up as badly as EA has. If anything that EA had screwed up during their own was likely the only reason they noticed EA's.

So long as the - BIG - money comes in, Disney does not give a f***.

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Media Molecule’s Next Game is Going to be a New IP

A job listing published by the UK studio reveals that its next project will be another entirely new IP.

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Inverno11h ago

The only PlayStation dev I care about tbh.

Cacabunga11h ago

Hopefully doesn’t take them a complete gen to release it

TheColbertinator5h ago

Good. Something not boring, not one of those "make your own game" crap and also on Steam would be nice.

Stopac4h ago

I too like to look for things in the wrong places.

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Outriders Dev's Next Game Has Been Canceled After Publishing Agreement With Take-Two Fell Through

Outriders developer People Can Fly's next game has been canceled after its publishing agreement with Take-Two Interactive fell through.

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Tacoboto1d 14h ago

"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."

If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.

banger881d 9h ago

If it was more online-only crap then good riddance.

jjb198119h ago

Outriders was crap. They slapped that game together and threw in a loot system to get players' attention. This game was absolutely jank and the always online nonsense made it stutter like crazy. People Can't Optimize.

thorstein18h ago

I liked Outriders but I could see where the artistic vision was compromised. The way the industry is now, it wouldn't surprise me that upper management would scrap something that didn't pull in money via gaas, mts, or other means.

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Escape from Tarkov Unheard Edition Reneges on Promised Content Behind $250 Price Tag

The new Escape from Tarkov Unheard Edition has the community in an outrage after promising exclusive access to the new PvE mode for $250 USD.

Christopher1d 8h ago

$250? Do they not know all the other games that already exist or will be made in the future that can do similar?

SimpleDad1d ago (Edited 23h ago)

This is for the hardcore people that have 2500 h in the game. They basically play that one game the whole year.
Oh and those same people are mad as hell at this... what a way to reward fans of your game and annihilate newcomers.

got_dam8h ago

Read a comment earlier calling it a "special monetization operation." I had to chuckle at that.